Frans de Cort
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Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court.
Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck
Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck
Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck was a Flemish writer. He was an uncle of the politician Jan Van Rijswijck....
, he published the journal De Grondwet since 1857. In 1858, he became editor of the magazine De Schelde. From 1861 on, he became head editor of De Toekomst, an illustrated magazine for education, which had been founded by his father-in-law Johan Michiel Dautzenberg
Johan Michiel Dautzenberg
Johan Michiel Dautzenberg was a Belgian writer. Professionally he was successively secretary, clerk, teacher, private teacher, and bookkeeper....
. He was a convinced Flemish-liberal poet, and he wrote songs like Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck
Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck
Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck was a Flemish writer. He was an uncle of the politician Jan Van Rijswijck....
, and also more romantic songs, such as Moeder en kind (E: Mother and child), which excelled by their simplicity.
He devoted himself to the more technical side of poetry and translated songs of Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...
(De schoonste liederen van R. Burns, 1862) and of the Odes of Horatius
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...
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